>Also the ideal launch point for such a nuke would be from space, not Earth.
And that is the catch they try to get your consent for, after you naively agree to the first idea.
I can't see how there is any way around the fact that anything powerful enough to deal with a NEO, rapidly, can also be used to destroy an entire country on Earth.
I would consent to a large nuclear powered spaceship being kept at L4 https://en.wikipedia.org/?titl... so that it could have enough time to match the velocity of a NEO then attach to it for the purpose of accelerating inward toward the sun to be destroyed.
Perhaps that is what they want, because then they don't have to really scan the crowd and can just have their personnel on the ground focus on people trying to hide their face?
Using auditory clues to induce dreams about a given topic is not impossible, and if the visual cortex activity can be decoded the simpler motor cortex that plays back your typing movements during password entry could also be decoded.
Your brain is hackable, with tools other than an axe.
It does work, but not as advertised and many devices do have such converters in them. They trade current for voltage but they cannot give you more total power than is available. For a device that is already using it's own converter the efficiency losses could make things worse not better.
The product is a classic example of how to get rich selling as little as possible for as much as possible to the large part of our population who are so technologically illiterate that everything just seems like magic to them, so they will believe almost anything.
See Current and Voltage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and DC-DC Boost converters https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you have a large and not well controlled influx of people from areas with high infection rates and low immunisation rates the only thing you can do to protect your community is to warn everyone of the increased risk and ensure that as many people as possible do get vaccinated.
The problem is how do you point this out to the population at large without causing racist sentiments to increase?
Assuming somebody does sell a secure SoHo router product, or is our only option to install something like DD-WRT and be vigilant when it comes to security updates?
It is a related principle, photons have momentum and it can be transferred to atoms to increase their kinetic energy, but it is only when it happens coherently that you notice anything more interesting than heat.
Not all job offers are as good as they seem and even if you are getting a lot more money you may find the work environment so unpleasant that you wish to go back to your old job with a smaller and more humane company, only to find that it is not even remotely possible.
Assuming there is a multi-verse and that there are newer universes formed all the time can intelligence grow large enough in time to know how to influence the formation of a new universe such that it can host an intelligence and spawn itself into the new universe?
Can a single or set of universal constants both be both functional (contribute to/define a universe of a form that can host intelligence) and somehow encode for that intelligence in the form of an AI running on a universal Turing machine? Are the digit sequences in some constants really random, and or can they also encode information? Are universes just huge rewrite decoding systems and the appropriate starting conditions will ensure the formation of an intelligence?
Can intelligence survive long enough in this universe to answer the above questions? Is immortality then theoretically possible if we upload ourselves into an AI and that AI learns to play God with new universes? Can man make a God in his own image (yes the reversal of the term is deliberate)? How can we be sure this has not already happened?
I just thought I'd ask since some of you seem to be in an omphaloskeptic mood today.
You get a choice when you upload to use your assigned GBs or have the image reduced and placed in unlimited storage. I uploaded a few large files and could still see all the detail when I zoomed in, so if there is a limit to the resolution it must be high and or they are using some very smart compression on them.
...as over 50% of people in one Australian state, Tasmania, are.
Teaching young kids to code is a great idea that I have already implemented, but it cannot work while in some regions kids are failing to pick up even basic maths. http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...
All this partisan political mania is hiding bigger issues that need to be addressed first.
True, except they have done it all wrong and not used a fractal configuration that would have offered a far wider bandwidth.
See http://www.subwoofer-builder.c... and the book "Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers: Theory, Design and Application" By Trevor J. Cox, Peter D'Antonio
Keep in mind that once you have line of sight to an engine tailpipe nothing is going to stop the sound short of a massive active noise cancelling system, or a vacuum.:-)
But if the voltage drop is inversely proportional to the cross section of the conductor, for a given material and length, isn't the work-around simply a bigger conductor for the links between the power bank and each room or energy intensive appliance? Recent success with fabricating continuous ribbons of grapheme in an industrially applicable manner could make the "just use more conductor" solution economically viable.
In Australia it became a huge middle class gravy train and the working poor ended up worse off as their electricity bills increased to fund the grid upgrades required to deal with all the decentralised power production. Most of the working poor live in rental properties and there were no incentives to put panels on those properties, this excluded almost all of the people who should have benefited most.
Giving power systems directly to the poor helps a lot, but what if they don't even own their own home?
I'm not rich and I do the same thing for my five kids, but I home educate them in STEM myself.
It is about the educational philosophy not the money!
Have you a vested interest in the existing, flawed, system, or are you just cranky with Musk?
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Dont even put Bills name in the same sentence as Stephen Hawking.... bills an idiot
You did just that.
>Also the ideal launch point for such a nuke would be from space, not Earth.
And that is the catch they try to get your consent for, after you naively agree to the first idea.
I can't see how there is any way around the fact that anything powerful enough to deal with a NEO, rapidly, can also be used to destroy an entire country on Earth.
I would consent to a large nuclear powered spaceship being kept at L4 https://en.wikipedia.org/?titl... so that it could have enough time to match the velocity of a NEO then attach to it for the purpose of accelerating inward toward the sun to be destroyed.
And it is starting to happen... http://www.kurzweilai.net/brai...
Not likely in it's current form because it is a fixed frequency narrow band reflector and solar energy is very wideband.
Fear not, it only applies to food, you may continue to indulge in your 2 pound vegetable fat suppositories.
Perhaps that is what they want, because then they don't have to really scan the crowd and can just have their personnel on the ground focus on people trying to hide their face?
Using auditory clues to induce dreams about a given topic is not impossible, and if the visual cortex activity can be decoded the simpler motor cortex that plays back your typing movements during password entry could also be decoded.
Your brain is hackable, with tools other than an axe.
Nope, the detonation can be in space and you just get the EMP. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S...
“What if we didn’t treat our mentally ill people like animals? What if we brought kindness and compassion to the table?”
It does work, but not as advertised and many devices do have such converters in them. They trade current for voltage but they cannot give you more total power than is available. For a device that is already using it's own converter the efficiency losses could make things worse not better. The product is a classic example of how to get rich selling as little as possible for as much as possible to the large part of our population who are so technologically illiterate that everything just seems like magic to them, so they will believe almost anything. See Current and Voltage, https://www.youtube.com/watch?... and DC-DC Boost converters https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
If you have a large and not well controlled influx of people from areas with high infection rates and low immunisation rates the only thing you can do to protect your community is to warn everyone of the increased risk and ensure that as many people as possible do get vaccinated. The problem is how do you point this out to the population at large without causing racist sentiments to increase?
Assuming somebody does sell a secure SoHo router product, or is our only option to install something like DD-WRT and be vigilant when it comes to security updates?
It is a related principle, photons have momentum and it can be transferred to atoms to increase their kinetic energy, but it is only when it happens coherently that you notice anything more interesting than heat.
Not all job offers are as good as they seem and even if you are getting a lot more money you may find the work environment so unpleasant that you wish to go back to your old job with a smaller and more humane company, only to find that it is not even remotely possible.
Assuming there is a multi-verse and that there are newer universes formed all the time can intelligence grow large enough in time to know how to influence the formation of a new universe such that it can host an intelligence and spawn itself into the new universe?
Can a single or set of universal constants both be both functional (contribute to/define a universe of a form that can host intelligence) and somehow encode for that intelligence in the form of an AI running on a universal Turing machine? Are the digit sequences in some constants really random, and or can they also encode information? Are universes just huge rewrite decoding systems and the appropriate starting conditions will ensure the formation of an intelligence?
Can intelligence survive long enough in this universe to answer the above questions? Is immortality then theoretically possible if we upload ourselves into an AI and that AI learns to play God with new universes? Can man make a God in his own image (yes the reversal of the term is deliberate)? How can we be sure this has not already happened?
I just thought I'd ask since some of you seem to be in an omphaloskeptic mood today.
You get a choice when you upload to use your assigned GBs or have the image reduced and placed in unlimited storage. I uploaded a few large files and could still see all the detail when I zoomed in, so if there is a limit to the resolution it must be high and or they are using some very smart compression on them.
Wrong wavelength, don't you need UVC 280 – 100 nm to kill bugs?
...as over 50% of people in one Australian state, Tasmania, are.
Teaching young kids to code is a great idea that I have already implemented, but it cannot work while in some regions kids are failing to pick up even basic maths. http://www.abc.net.au/radionat...
All this partisan political mania is hiding bigger issues that need to be addressed first.
Because trolling is a art, and this is just the political version of advertising and marketing.
A lot of social media sites are full of special interest groups and cliques that indulge in such behaviour.
It does not even match the media's warped idea of what a troll is, which is more of a stalker or psychological sadist.
True, except they have done it all wrong and not used a fractal configuration that would have offered a far wider bandwidth.
See http://www.subwoofer-builder.c... and the book "Acoustic Absorbers and Diffusers: Theory, Design and Application" By Trevor J. Cox, Peter D'Antonio
Keep in mind that once you have line of sight to an engine tailpipe nothing is going to stop the sound short of a massive active noise cancelling system, or a vacuum. :-)
Death is a great wealth re-distributor and without death inequity will accelerate, unless we cap the amount of wealth a person can have.
But if the voltage drop is inversely proportional to the cross section of the conductor, for a given material and length, isn't the work-around simply a bigger conductor for the links between the power bank and each room or energy intensive appliance? Recent success with fabricating continuous ribbons of grapheme in an industrially applicable manner could make the "just use more conductor" solution economically viable.
Civilisation gets eaten by a fungus.
In Australia it became a huge middle class gravy train and the working poor ended up worse off as their electricity bills increased to fund the grid upgrades required to deal with all the decentralised power production. Most of the working poor live in rental properties and there were no incentives to put panels on those properties, this excluded almost all of the people who should have benefited most. Giving power systems directly to the poor helps a lot, but what if they don't even own their own home?
I'm not rich and I do the same thing for my five kids, but I home educate them in STEM myself. It is about the educational philosophy not the money! Have you a vested interest in the existing, flawed, system, or are you just cranky with Musk?